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Ok I vote for stupid question dumbass. You are second guessing yourself based on the belief that the jump would have gone fine. you don't know that. You also now know how catastrophic the engine failure was. At the time you didnt. How many times has a student done somthing on exit that took a couple tumbles to sort out. I have never jumped without lowers but ii brings in a whole new set of possibilitys. Dont talk yourself into thinking you made the wrong descision so that if it were to happen again you automatically jump without thinking about it. Bottom line is that everyone lived. so the descision you made was "A" right one. Perhaps you would have been fine if you jumped. perhaps not. It doesnt matter anymore. I love ya like a brother and would have hated to lose you that day. (I will never admit that in person even after you ply me with yeagerbombs) _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

forget the jet powered 182's I wanna see the super human ti's doing 24 tandems out of a 182. I've had it after 5-6... but i'm old. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Don't kid yourself. My son graduates from WMU aviation tech dept. this year and from the looks of the job offers he has already had he will start out making more than I do. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

might want to retitle it "thats how pipers are made." _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

technically, yes. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

You mean you don't want to talk about getting 4 hours of sleep if your lucky and how to fake your log books? You mean the best way to avoid weigh stations? You mean talk about how companys will fire you if you don't run illegal hours? That kind of stuff you don't want to talk about in public? _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

we have a dog AKC name is "D.B. Coopers hidden treasure" or cooper for short _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

MY wifes brother got me to take my first jump with him. After we started spending our entire weekends at the dz, my wife decided if you cant beat em-join em. that was 1002 jumps ago for her. one our kids has 45 jumps one has 12, one has 3 and the youngest did a tandem with me last summer. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

congrats! Things move quicker from there. I passed my checkride the 26th. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Hey Larry, and everyone from "old" napolean, goshen tecumseh. wherever. there is going to be a little get togather next friday. details can be found at the hastings sl forum or the plainwell forum. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

I have a new call sign.... "ICEPACK" Oh yeah, forgot it had to be from somthing good, sorry. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Our new Dobie. D.B. Cooper. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

I am surprised that there arent more ppl saying their p/c was impeded when they fired it or are most ppl just sending them in to Strong without trying it. I know we videoed my ground deployment yesterday. there was a moment of silence after I pulled the handle before the holy shits started. my p/c never got out of the container. I for one do not understand how this mod got out of testing. from my understanding it is almost a 100% failure rate to launch a p/c from the tray. I am very dissapointed to say the least. I should know better than to fall for what I thought of at the time to be an inadequate solution to a non-existant problem. the flinger will go on the shelf right next to the catapult system from reflex. Bottom line is that in my mind there is no friggin way this system was tested fully. skydiving rigs should not be subject to "gimmicks" in order to try to get a leg up on the compitition. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Windrift. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Your size isn't a factor. Big jumpers just need to buy big jumpsuits. I am 220 but I can exit as rear rear float or diver or base.. whatever I want to do because I have a large jumpsuit. It doesn't look pretty but I am never the one going low. _______________ "It seemed like a good idea at the time"